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Volume 51, No. 4

B.C. Reg. 34/2008

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

February 26, 2008

B.C. Reg. 34/2008 , deposited February 19, 2008, pursuant to the MOTOR FUEL TAX ACT [Section 71]. Order in Council 101/2008, approved and ordered February 19, 2008.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that, effective February 20, 2008, the Motor Fuel Tax Regulation, B.C. Reg. 414/85, is amended as set out in the attached Schedule.

— C. TAYLOR, Minister of Finance; G. CAMPBELL, Presiding Member of the Executive Council.

Schedule

Section 15.2 of the Motor Fuel Tax Regulation, B.C. Reg. 414/85, is amended

(

a) by repealing subsection (1) (

c) and substituting the following:

(

c) crew crummies or buses when used for the transportation of

(

i) company employees, or

(ii) contractors or agents of the company or employees of either of them

carrying out an activity in the company's logging operation, , and

(

b) by repealing subsection (2) (

b) and substituting the following:

(

b) crew crummies or buses when used for the transportation of

(

i) company employees, or

(ii) contractors or agents of the company or employees of either of them

carrying out an activity in the company's mineral mining operation, .

2 Sections 15.4 (1) and (2) and 15.5 (1) and (2) are amended by striking out "bona fide farmer" wherever it appears and substituting "farmer".

Section 51.1 is amended by repealing the definition of "Category 3 alternative motor fuel" and substituting the following:

"Category 3 alternative motor fuel" means

(

a) fuel, used to propel motor vehicles, that when compared to

(

i) gasoline, if the fuel is for use in a gasoline engine or an engine that is used to propel a type of vehicle that would ordinarily be propelled by a gasoline engine, or

(ii) diesel fuel, if the fuel is for use in a diesel engine or an engine that is used to propel a type of vehicle that would ordinarily be propelled by a diesel engine

is shown in tests and analyses approved by the Minister of Environment and performed by a testing agency approved by that minister to have the potential

(iii) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicle operation by at least 35%, and

(iv) to produce no increase in emissions from motor vehicle operation of any other emission group, or

(

b) biodiesel fuel, as defined in

section 51.11, or ethanol that is used as coloured fuel, marine diesel fuel, locomotive fuel, jet fuel or aviation fuel; .

Section 51.2 (2) is amended by striking out "to fuel" and substituting " to a category 1 alternative fuel".

Section 51.11 is amended by striking out "means a fuel that is mono-alkyl esters" and substituting " means a fuel that is made up of mono-alkyl esters".

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